Data flow control method

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2007-04-10

2007-04-10

Kizou, Hassan (Department: 2616)

Multiplex communications

Data flow congestion prevention or control

Control of data admission to the network

C714S748000

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10114517

ABSTRACT:
A method of controlling the flow of an amount of data from a sending peer to a receiving peer of a predetermined communication protocol is described. The method comprises dividing the amount of data into a plurality of data segments, where the data segments are ordered in a sequence. The segments are sent to the receiving peer in the order of said sequence. The receiving peer acknowledges the correct receipt of a data segment and identifies the last correctly received data segment of the sequence that was received in the proper order of the sequence. The sending peer is arranged such that if it receives a threshold number of duplicate acknowledgements, it performs a retransmission. The threshold number that trigger a retransmission is an adaptive parameter and may assume values larger than three.

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